I read almost the same exact sentence from another Romneybot on NRO Corner. Obvously, Willard was hitting the fax machines this week
Each of these maladies can be cured, if state officials recognize the limitations of top-down government solutions
Talking point 2: Blame Duval for the current metldown in Mass. This is like Lenin apologists claiming Lenin was not responsible for Stalin's butchery. Lenin set up the framework that allowed Stalin to do his work. Romney set up the framework and gave the government the power to implement top-down solutions.
Works as well as TENNCARE.
Check it out.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2472913/posts
The result is all the problems familiar to patients in socialized systems — longer wait times, fewer doctors, overstretched emergency rooms — with the uniquely American wrinkle of dramatically increased costs. Mass. residents now pay 27 percent more than the U.S. average.
If costs are the issue, it isn’t very difficult: As has been noted here many times, third-party transactions are always more expensive, whether the third party is an insurer or the government. Most people in the waiting room don’t care whether the procedure costs $200 or $20,000: Their only concern is whether the third party will grant access to it. If you mandate universal third-partyism, your costs by definition will increase. As a businessman, Mitt should have known that. So it reflects poorly on his judgment.
And it’s worse than that, because, of those citizens forced by Mitt to acquire insurance, nearly 70 percent are getting it all but totally subsidized by Massachusetts taxpayers. That’s a good example of another general principle — that, even if you accept his characterization of the plan, wonkish non-partisan technocratic reforms will invariably be turned leftward by the statist bureaucracy.
“Mass. residents now pay 27 percent more than the U.S. average.”
Change you can believe in................
Or, to put it much more honestly:”it is “bankrupting” the state.”
Which is the very fact that he starts out decrying as “implausible”.
Liberals, no matter how painfully obvious the evidence of their programs failure, always double down on stupid.
“Yes, it's not working, but only because we didn't go far enough.”
The Massachusetts Treasurer was on Fox this morning and he said Romneycare was bankrupting the state.
If I punch in a Massachusetts Zip (02120) and my birth date, I get offered 6 plans raging from $412 to $558 per month.
Fewer choices. Higher prices. Need I say more?